AT least 18 people have been granted amnesty recently and five others refused by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Among those granted amnesty is an Inkatha Freedom Party member Boy Vusimuzi Gwamanda who applied for amnesty for the 1990 conspiracy to kill Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa. Other people granted amnesty include two members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, Pieter Magiel Breytenbach and De Wet Johann Strydom, for the murder of Kleinbooi Ramolla near Bultfontein in 1994 , former ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto weSizwe member Philane Zondi for the murder of an IFP supporter at Empangeni in 1994.
Thirteen Inkatha Freedom Party members will appear before the TRC amnesty committee next week for their parts in the attack on and killing of Boipatong residents on June 17, 1990.